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Flores de Santa Gemita - 041422 - Enhanced (2)
In this building you can see three levels of cells. The wide hallway is where they would show movies. Some medical services and haircuts. Phone booths -3 only.
Below, where the stairs are, contain the dungeons where serious criminals were kept. You can see they had limited light and seclusion. One man was sent there for 30 years before he died - a mass murderer.
The two images look in opposite direction down the same hall and I took them a couple hours apart.
It is suggested as a prisoner better not to snore at night!
Peace and freedom and justice and the law were broken by the police during the demonstration in Berlin;
the government, which is responsible for it,
now shows its true totalitarian face shamelessly open.
Now everything that was feared for months is coming true -
wake up, people all over the world,
and try to stop this development all together!
[29. August 2020]
Our friend has an automatics workshop and kindly lent us this transmission housing to put the circular fire on top of. My homework for the 'weekend' was to get a photo showing shallow depth of field. Think this one shows it pretty well 👍 Not that it's by any means a challenge with the amazing kit I was able to borrow. The 70-200 lens is an absolute treat. My hands are still sore from holding it. Better harden up eh!
Happy Sunday everyone, I'm off to be an intern at a photo shoot, so exciting and a tad nervous too!
I've been trying to capture this in the right light for a couple of years now and finally this evening I think I might have captured what i wanted. This Stone Circle is almost hidden away on the moors and I wanted to capture it as the sun was setting
The shackle of a rusty padlock.
Please enlarge to see the rusty detail.
Reverse mounted my lens to give a greater macro ability.
... but the other horses stayed out of the photo.
B61 and 4910 curve through Harden with 3MS8 wagon transfer from Albury to Goulburn and Sydney.
2021-11-09 SSR B61-4910 Harden 3MS8
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico.
Every layers are made by volcanic eruptions spewing gas, broken rock, lava and ash. As layer upon layer was deposited, the material hardened, fused by heat and pressure or cemented by materials in groundwater to form the rock type which is called tuff.
Tuff rock is not tough, in million years, water the powerful agent dissolves minerals, fractures rock and sculpts its walls.
Some of the tents have "cap rocks" large hard boulders that protect tuff below.
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Special livery QL019 leads QL0** and QL0** away from Harden with empty Qube steel train 4WM7 bound for Melbourne.
QL019's artwork, titled Yindyamarra, depicts the balance and interconnectedness that exists between people, the sea, and the country.
Thursday 24th April 2025
For the first time I tried doing a livestream as I was set up to take this shot. I know I am NOT a videographer! (I'm barely a photographer!) Anyway I did at least manage to get this.
These sculptures were situated on a small grassed area which to reach one has to climb many stairs, in fact wherever you go in The Rocks stairs have to be climbed!! The pattern on the left hand sculpture is shadow from a nearby tree.
Sydney was first settled by the British as a penal colony on January 26 1788 when 400 settlers and 750 convicts arrived on the First Fleet of 11 ships. The convicts had been sentenced to transportation for crimes as minor as stealing food - though there were hardened criminals among them.
More convicts arrived from England, and later Ireland. These and the soldiers sent to guard them were settled in the area named "The Rocks". They built huts of unseasoned timber or mud reinforced with twigs from trees. None remain.
The Rocks has the biggest concentration of historic buildings in Sydney. Most have been 'recycled' and house shops, restaurants, art galleries, and the like. Some terrace houses (strings of two and three storey houses built side-by-side and sharing common dividing walls) survived and are now much sought after as places to live. The area is dotted with pubs, including the Lord Nelson which has traded since 1842 and the hero of Waterloo since 1845. The 'Hero' was notorious as a source of unwilling crewmen for ships which were short-handed. Men were made drunk and dragged off by 'press gangs' through a tunnel which ran under the hotel to a house across the street from where they were taken to the nearby wharves.
Woods in Harden, West Yorkshire, UK during misty morning.
Digitally blended DRI from 5 exposures of -2, -1, 0, +1, +2EV.
Photoshop CC with Raya PRO by Jimmy McIntyre + Lightroom CC + Nik Collection
Harden is a small country town in NSW, full of history. The surrounding farmland is full of charming rural scenes - a photographers dream.
I have met these ethnic Tibetan boy in his native village on 2,380 m altitude in Manaslu area (Nepal). You may not find in the whole world such an independent and self confident children like those in Himalayas who live a simple natural life. While parents are busy working on the farm, these kids learn empirically the world around them. In such a harsh environment for children from the first years had to become self-sufficient.
"To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the the real." Susan Sontag, On Photography.
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Dani men on the long trek to market high in a remote corner of West Papua's central highlands, 1600m/5200ft above sea level - Grand Valley of the Balim River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Shot with a compact semi-automatic Pentax Zoom 35mm point-and-shoot film camera, film developed in a Sulawesi street-corner shophouse, circa 1996.
Adornment
The Dani elder in the foreground is adorned with an upturned boar’s tusk nose piece, a single bird-of-paradise plume, a tightly woven bush-twine head band of cut shell pieces, an ornamental wristband of finely woven pandanus fibres, armbands of pigs’ scrotum above both elbows (thought to ward off ghosts), a walking stick, and the iconic long koteka or penis gourd.
Owning the Gaze
The men come from one of the scattered settlements under the mountain wall at the end of the infinity path that cuts across the valley floor in the backdrop below. They pause for a moment on a high-ridge pass to observe an approaching stranger, the photographer-Other. The photographer's gaze is returned with a seemingly wary look of wonder and resistance as the observer become the observed. Subject owns the gaze for a frozen moment.
The Gardens
The path below passes through elaborate sweet potato gardens and a huge maze of sophisticated irrigation ditches. Sweet potatoes (over 70 varieties) are the staple food and account about 90 per cent of the Dani diet.
The Dani are accomplished gardeners and pig farmers with a Neolithic (late Stone Age) culture and technology that relies on polished stone adzes, axes and fire-hardened digging sticks. These tools are gradually being replaced with iron and steel.
First Contact
The indigenous peoples of West Papua migrated from southeast Asia and the Australian content about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago during the Ice Age when sea levels were lower and distances between islands shorter.
Western "first contact” with West Papua's Grand Valley Dani was established in 1938 during American-led botanical and zoological expeditions to the central highlands, less than sixty years before this photograph was taken.
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Ethnographic efforts at demystifying Dani neolithic cultural practices and ritualized inter-clan warfare in the region are associated with the early ground-breaking Harvard-Peabody Expedition, 1961-63. They include Anthropologist Karl Heider’s accounts in “The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea,” Aldine Publishing (1970); and “Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors” (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth Publishing (1996). Also, filmmaker Robert Gardner’s classic social documentary, “Dead Birds” (1965), and writer Peter Matthiessen’s gripping first-hand accounts in “Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea,” Viking Press (1962).
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Though my mother of 9 was a gentle soul, she had been hardened through the knocks of life. As a young child, a doctor operated on her on the kitchen table at the farm and at the age of 17 with a pile of siblings in the back seat, she drove a car much like the one shown from Havelock, Iowa to Frankfort, South Dakota over 300+ miles to a new home, much of the way over unpaved roads. As a young woman her hands were more used to farm chores than expensive manicures and she would not have understood the self worship of selfies taken by cell phones.
I have met these ethnic Tibetan boys in their native village on 2,380 m altitude in Manaslu area (Nepal). You may not find in the whole world such an independent and self confident children like those in Himalayas who live a simple natural life. While parents are busy working on the farm, these kids learn empirically the world around them. In such a harsh environment for children from the first years had to become self-sufficient. They do not have the slightest knowledge of the achievements of industrial civilization, but it does not prevent them becoming strong, harmonious, happy and whole person.